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Did Bernie really tell Liz a woman could not be President of the United States? Did Warren truly accuse Sanders of recruiting his campaign staffers to “trash” her? Did Hillary Clinton really weigh in on Bernie’s likability on the record?
The feud between 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren has divided many of the party’s voters about who will make the best candidate. It started with a POLITICO report alleging that the Sanders campaign issued talking points for its volunteers. Those points aimed to persuade voters that if Warren won the candidacy, the Democratic party would have a harder time expanding its voter base for the upcoming election.
Warren responded by saying she was “disappointed” to learn the Sanders campaign was ending an unspoken truce between the candidates and eroding a year of good will. The Massachusetts senator followed up by alleging that Sanders, a senator from Vermont, told her in private that a woman could not win the presidency.
The sniping between the candidates and their campaigns ballooned into headline news when they confronted each other following a CNN debate between 2020 Democratic candidates in Iowa. That exchange was caught on live microphones, edited by CNN and published as an exclusive:
“I think you called me a liar on national TV,” Warren can be heard saying.
“What?” Sanders responded.
“I think you called me a liar on national TV,” she repeated.
“You know, let’s not do it right now. If you want to have that discussion, we’ll have that discussion,” Sanders said, to which Warren replied, “Anytime.”
“You called me a liar,” Sanders continued. “You told me — all right, let’s not do it now.”
Clinton then weighed in on Sanders in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter this week: “Nobody likes him.”
Sanders later defended himself with humor: “On a good day, my wife likes me.”